A newly introduced Florida bill would bar state and local agencies and nonprofit groups that receive state funds from recognizing an employee’s preferred gender pronouns if they differ from the individual’s biological sex.

House Bill 599, authored by Rep. Ryan Chamberlin (R-Belleview), would prevent workers or contractors of the specified employers from being required to use certain titles and pronouns, from providing them to others and from being asked by the employer to provide the titles or pronouns.

“It is the policy of the state that a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person’s sex,” the bill states.